A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
It always amazes me that we possess such vivid memories of some experiences yet tend to forget others. As the years' pass, I am always trying to retain as many as possible from my childhood. One that sticks out goes way back to my pre-school years. Now I can’t remember if my twin brother and I were actually in a year-long program or just a set number of days where high school students worked with us.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Digital Promise is thrilled to announce that 28 districts are joining the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2022-2023 school year. This new cohort extends the network’s reach to more than 150 districts across 38 states and expands its cumulative impact to 4.4 million students served over time. Please join us in welcoming the new 2022-2023 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools!
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ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Schools across the country are dealing with a severe teacher shortage. That shortage has become so desperate at times that state governments have even started letting their employees take paid time off to plug in the holes in missing staff, in an effort to keep schools from shuttering in-person learning. For example: In late January, Utah Governor Spencer Cox issued an executive order giving state employees up to 30 hours of paid time off to sit in for missing staff at public and private schools
Anthropology for Beginners
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country. It became particularly intriguing because of the rising concern in areas like Red Corridor where Maoist insurgency was on the rise that became a threat to the integrity of the country.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! It wasn’t even a week into the new school year, and already Marsena Toney’s students were being sent home. But this time, the reason wasn’t Covid.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The post How to Engage Students with Computational Thinking Practices in Math appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
TikTok is coming for Google’s gig, as the kids might say. Translated, it means that the video-based social media platform is biting into the search engine’s popularity. Last fall, TikTok surpassed Google as the most-visited site on the web. A top Google leader said during Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference this summer that nearly 40 percent of young people—ages 18 to 24—are turning to visual-based social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram for their internet searches.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Everywhere, it seems, back-to-school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage. This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press. The U.S. education secretary has called for investment to keep teachers from quitting. A teachers union leader has described it as a five-alarm emergency. News coverage has warned of a crisis in teaching.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The post How I Help Students Create Purposeful Media Projects that Matter to Them appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Ever since middle school, I knew that it would be up to me to find a way to pay for college. My parents have always supported my academic ambitions while also prioritizing their own financial goals, such as saving vigilantly for retirement. They strongly believe that children should pay for things they want with their own money, including college. Emily Erickson We didn’t think this would be difficult for me to do.
Education to the Core
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
It’s finally fall! Time to break out the Pumpkin Spice, Fall decor, and my monthly-themed activities for October. Cross-curricular learning is the next level when it comes to higher-order thinking. Here are 16 engaging classroom activities for October that I’m sure your kids will love to do in their classroom this fall. October Classroom Activity […] The post 16 Engaging Classroom Activities for October appeared first on Education to the Core.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Suburban 9-year-olds drove the nationwide decline in reading scores during the pandemic. In math, all groups of students deteriorated. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages. School started on an ominous note this year. On Sept.1, the U.S. Department of Education released disastrous test results. Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in reading and math were erased from 2020 to 2022.
ACRE
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
On September 17, 1787 39 of the 55 Constitutional Convention delegates signed the newly drafted U.S. Constitution. Now a federal holiday recognized as Constitution Day, the date is used as an opportunity to highlight the uniqueness of the U.S. Constitution, appreciate the lives and work of the nation’s founders, and as a time to analyze the Constitution’s lasting impact.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Veteran teachers are leaving the profession in waves. The exodus is tied to broader trends about employees feeling burned out or unsupported at work in these challenging times of pandemic and uncertainty. But education seems particularly hard-hit by a sense of demoralization. To better understand this issue, for this week’s podcast we’re listening in on a conversation between two educators personally affected by this issue.
Education to the Core
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
It’s finally fall! Time to break out the Pumpkin Spice, Fall decor, and my monthly-themed activities for October. Cross-curricular learning is the next level when it comes to higher-order thinking. Here are 16 engaging classroom activities for October that I’m sure your kids will love to do in their classroom this fall. October Classroom Activity […] The post 16 Engaging Classroom Activities for October appeared first on Education to the Core.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Reading can change lives. “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. … When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror,” says Rudine Sims Bishop , a former professor at Ohio State University. Through reading, we see new vistas and we see ourselves anew. Beyond places of imagination, reading can transform us, quite literally.
Smithsonian's History Explorer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
The Smithsonian is pleased to support teachers and students for Constitution Day and beyond, with digital curricula, online exhibitions, classroom activities, teacher trainings, and more.
Maitri Learning
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Anna Volokhova , founder of the Ukrainian Montessori Community, organized a zoom conversation with me and parents living in Ukraine in the midst of war and those who were displaced due to the war. You can watch a recording of that call here but I've also written down some of the ordinary and extraordinary questions that came up. I wasn't sure how to prepare for this gathering because I felt overwhelmed by what the families must be experiencing.
Education to the Core
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Overwhelmed! Exhausted! So much to do! Send help! And it is only September! Are you even a teacher if you are not feeling any of those at the start of the school year? ETTC educators have been there! We feel your tiredness in the posts and emails we receive! Now ETTC is here to help! […] The post 19 Classroom Activities for September appeared first on Education to the Core.
Steven V. Miller
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
I'm easily impressed by my own parlor tricks. I’ve been racking my brain for some time around the problem of tailoring a project’s workflow in a way that optimizes automation, reproducibility, and—depending on the project’s scale—speed. A previous stab at this looked to R Markdown as an operating system for a project. This will help link the manuscript side of a project with the analysis side of a project, but has the drawback of asking too much from R Markdown and the researcher.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t check my work email during the summer sometimes. Before you get on me, it’s not every day. This summer, in the midst of driving across the country on a road trip, one of my accidental slips happened at a gas pump. Instantly, I regretted it. Another colleague, another friend had resigned from their teaching position at my school.
Maitri Learning
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Anna Volokhova , founder of the Ukrainian Montessori Community, organized a zoom conversation with me and parents living in Ukraine in the midst of war and those who were displaced due to the war. You can watch a recording of that call here but I've also written down some of the ordinary and extraordinary questions that came up. I wasn't sure how to prepare for this gathering because I felt overwhelmed by what the families must be experiencing.
Education to the Core
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Overwhelmed! Exhausted! So much to do! Send help! And it is only September! Are you even a teacher if you are not feeling any of those at the start of the school year? ETTC educators have been there! We feel your tiredness in the posts and emails we receive! Now ETTC is here to help! […] The post 19 Classroom Activities for September appeared first on Education to the Core.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
I grew up knowing I wanted to graduate high school and pursue a college degree. I aspired to be a chemical engineer and had big dreams of curing cancer and AIDS. However, I was raised in a chaotic household that left me unprepared, both financially and emotionally, for managing college life. That deprived me of achieving those goals, at least for several decades.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
This spring, after 16 years in the classroom, math teacher Justin Aion decided he wouldn’t be returning in the fall. At the small school in Pittsburgh where Aion taught, all four math teachers decided to leave this summer. “My school did not drive me out of education. My students did not drive me out of education,” Aion says. Instead, he says he left because the lack of support and the deep systemic flaws in education had finally become too much.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
As the pandemic kicked in and much of the world went into lockdown, schools everywhere were forced to adapt. Much of the national media coverage made the result look like a total disaster: Students everywhere set back; teachers burnt out; and parents at wit’s end. And certainly there have been plenty of challenges for educators during this health crisis.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
In the wake of ongoing educational challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, educators, families and communities are asking for a more holistic approach to meeting student needs. According to the June 2022 Learning Heroes survey Hidden in Plain Sight , more than 89 percent of parents believe that it is essential for families and teachers to work together to help overcome the pandemic’s impact on learning.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The pandemic has thrown up more obstacles for students trying to stay on track toward a credential, and that has been particularly true for students at community colleges and other public colleges. That was the message by state higher ed leaders who gathered this summer at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education in Washington, D.C. The top problems they identified were decreased student enrollment at colleges and insufficient access to and understanding of digital technology among students and
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
BriAnne Moline’s path through higher education is not unlike that of millions of other students in the U.S. After first earning her associate degree in early childhood education, she has, for eight years, been slowly chipping away at a bachelor’s degree too, taking on more classes when her life allowed for it and backing away when disruptions like family illness interfered.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
At the high school where I last worked, the librarian had what we all understood to be an ironic trinket sitting on her office shelf: an action figure of a librarian that made an amazing shushing action when you pushed a button, providing welcome levity. That’s all the action figure could do; today’s librarians, who must confront increasing ranks of violent protesters, could use a lot more features to fight back.
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